About the Roeper School

An international leader in gifted education, Roeper guides students to become curious, engaged, and impactful members of their communities. Our two campuses serve over 550 students in preschool through Grade 12 from over 60 communities in southeast Michigan.

Academic Excellence

At Roeper, we believe in the power of each student to reach their full potential and contribute to the world in meaningful ways. Our academic curriculum emphasizes conceptual and experiential learning opportunities that facilitate specific goals for individuals guided by their intellectual and personal characteristics, needs, and interests. Our students graduate with a knowledge of how the world works and a hunger to play a meaningful role in it.

Creativity at Roeper

Gifted students need artistic avenues to express themselves as well as to promote abstract thinking and nonverbal expression. Roeper art classes provide a forum for students to express their personal identity and provide an essential outlet for introspection and sensitivity.

School Life

Our academic offerings are enriched by a variety of activities and opportunities for students to engage with one another, their school, and their communities. From a vibrant arts program to an exciting athletics department, we aim to nurture the whole child and offer a community where our students can learn, play, explore, and discover.

Thank You

Community support is essential to our success. We are grateful for all contributions of any size, which enable us to continue the mission of educating and inspiring gifted students to think as individuals and engage the world around them.

Aisha Ellis-Gordon

10/10/2017

My Roeper Story is about how special Roeper is to me.

As I sit back and reflect on my experience at Roeper, I have to say, I took my time at Roeper for granted. Not my education, but the environment in which I was provided the opportunity to learn. The most important part of what you learn during your time at Roeper actually doesn’t come out of a classroom academically, but is reflected in the classroom by the teachers, the environment, administration, students and community, and that is “The Roeper Philosophy.”

As I continue to grow, I often hear people say that’s just the way it is, or that’s just how I was taught. Roeper never told me what to think or how to think, they just encouraged me to be a constant thinker. They taught me that my mind was valued as an individual and my presence was necessary in this world. They required me to be in control of my successes and responsible for my failures. They challenged and pushed me to be out of the ordinary and to proudly be labeled as a Roeper Kid.

I would be lying if I said that Roeper’s way of teaching has not caused me a lot of funny looks, misunderstanding, and constant arguments. People don’t always understand why I have to figure things out for myself, why I have to do things my way, or why I don’t have biases and prejudices against other people. I can understand both sides of a story, and most importantly, that I can be myself, accepted or not, regardless of who I am around. I can express myself without tearing others down, I can see the world through a lens that was created by me, no matter how ugly that picture may look, I can make it beautiful. Roeper taught me that being myself and being different was important, no matter how it looked to others.

When I graduated from Roeper, I was prepared academically for college, but I was also prepared to be a strong citizen of the world, a person free to think and change the world, but I also understood the responsibility that came with that freedom. I’m truly grateful for my time there and Roeper will always be special to me for that reason. It was such a blessing.